By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
James Brolin (born Craig Kenneth Bruderlin, July 18, 1940) is an American actor. Brolin has won two Golden Globes and an Emmy. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 27, 1998. Brolin is the father of actor Josh Brolin and the husband of Barbra Streisand.
Brolin is best known for his TV roles such as Steven Kiley on Marcus Welby, M.D.(1969–1976), Peter McDermott on Hotel (1983–1988), John Short on Life in Pieces (2015–2019), and the Narrator on Sweet Tooth and his film roles such as Sgt. Jerome K. Weber in Skyjacked (1972), John Blane in Westworld (1973), General Ralph Landry in Traffic (2000),[2] Jack Barnes in Catch Me If You Can (2002), and Emperor Zurg in the 2022 Toy Story spin-off film Lightyear.
In the late 1970s, Brolin started a brief but relatively successful career in sports car racing. After success in several celebrity auto races, he entered the 1979 24 Hours Nürburgring as part of the AMC Spirit team. Brolin’s two-car team, which included accomplished racer Lyn St. James, finished both first and second in class.
In 1985, Brolin met actress Jan Smithers on the set of Hotel, and they married in 1986. The couple had a daughter, Molly Elizabeth (b. 1987). Smithers filed for divorce from Brolin in 1995.
In 1996, Brolin met Barbra Streisand through a friend, and they got married on July 1, 1998. The couple resides in Malibu, California. Brolin is the stepfather of Streisand’s only child, Jason Gould.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Home Hint of the Day
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Died
- John Paul Jones (naval commander) –
- Jane Austen (author ) –
- Eugene Shoemaker (American astrogeologist) –
- Gerry Thomas (invented the TV dinner and helped revolutionize food marketing and distribution) –
- General William Westmoreland (commanded U.S. forces during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968) –
- Jerry Hadley (tenor) –
- George Coe (actor) –
- Alex Rocco (actor) –
Born
- William Makepeace Thackeray (writer) –
- Hume Cronyn (actor) –
- Red Skelton (actor & comedian) –
- Nelson Mandela (political activist) –
- John Glenn, Jr. (astronaut) –
- James Brolin (actor) –
- Mike Greenwell (baseball player) –
- Vin Diesel (actor) –
- Ben Sheets (baseball player) –
- Kristen Bell (actress) –
- Jamie Benn (hockey player) –
Events
- First train ride between U.S. (Portland, Maine) and Canada (Montreal, Quebec)–
- Pierre and Marie Curie announced the discovery of a new element and called it polonium–
- Fireworks banned in Cleveland, Ohio–
- The first jet combat plane was tested–
- Garden State Park racetrack opened, Cherry Hill, New Jersey–
- President Harry Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act into law which places the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the United States Vice President–
- Video of RMS Titanic wreckage released–
Weather
- The temperature reached 102 degrees F in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories–
- Death Valley, California, recorded a high of 127 degrees F–
- The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers crested at 46.9 feet in St. Louis, Missouri–
- Aurora, Illinois, received 16.91 inches of rain in 24 hours–
- First day of storm that brought flooding to the Saguenay region of Quebec.–
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